gdm 2.19.1

["Brian Cameron" <install-module gnome org>]

       Module: gdm
      Version: 2.19.1
  Uploaded by: Brian Cameron

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.1.tar.gz
  md5sum: d760de21dd81eee3f02a10f0b04c6f28
    size: 5.3M

http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm/2.19/gdm-2.19.1.tar.bz2
  md5sum: b18053fc83f66649e4c53939503c325c
    size: 3.4M

News
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2.19.1 Stuff:

- Now GDM desktop files support the optional X-Gdm-XserverArgs extension to
  the desktop files installed to /usr/share/xsessions.  This allows a desktop
  session file to specify additional Xserver flags to be used with the
  session.  This could be useful to turn on special extensions needed for
  certain accessibility features, or to use sessions that require special
  Xserver flags or extensions, etc.  Note that sessions that use this
  feature cause GDM to restart the Xserver after authentication.
  <Ron Yorston>

- Now gdmgreeter themes support a "background=[true|false]" element to be 
  specified for any item tag.  Items which have this tag set to true will
  be mapped to the root window after authentication.  This way the 
  background image to be displayed can be specified for the interim 
  between authentication and when the session starts.  (Frederic Crozat)

- Fix gdm_daemon_check_permissions so it resets the permissions of the
  ServAuthDir rather than LogDir.  This bug was introduced into 2.19.0.
  (Brian Cameron)

- Correct handling of AlwaysLoginCurrentSession and DoubleLoginWarning so they
  work more sensibly.  Previously they caused a silent login failure for
  non-migratable sessions (e.g. Xnest and XDMCP) if both were set to true.
  (Brian Cameron)

- When using PAM, if it receives a PAM_AUTHINFO_UNAVAIL message, it will
  display the default "authentication failed" message.  This ensures that
  the error message is the same for invalid user and incorrect password,
  making it harder to tell whether an account is a valid one or not. 
  (Lo\357c Minier)

- Avoid starting timed login timer if a username has already been entered.
  (Lo\357c Minier)

- Check for existance of a gdmgreeter theme before selecting a random 
  theme.  Skip over themes that don't exist on the system.  (Lo\357c Minier)

- Fix a bug that was causing gdmflexiserver commands SET_LOGOUT_ACTION and
  SET_SAFE_LOGOUT action to not work.  Also fix a bug that was causing the
  gdmflexiserver command UPDATE_CONFIG to return an incorrect return code.
  These issues were introduced in GDM 2.19.0.  (Brian Cameron) 

- Now used an unsigned character buffer in gdm_fdgetc because the GDM GUI
  sends the username/password data as utf8 and the daemon will interpret
  any character sent with its high bit set as EOF unless we use an unsigned
  buffer.  This should improve support of usernames and passwords which 
  contain non-ASCII characters.  (Lo\357c Minier)

- This change should only affect Solaris users.  Add support for ctrun, so
  that when running GDM as a svc service via svcadm(1M), subprocesses are run
  in a separate contract.  This ensures that when programs in the user session
  crash, it doesn't cause a GDM restart.  (Brian Cameron)

- Remove unused failsafe logic from the GDM Xsession script.  For
  some time GDM has called failsafe directly from the daemon slave,
  so this code hasn't been used for some time.  (Brian Cameron)

- Improvements to how GDM sets umask.  (Peter Baumann)

- No longer unset MAIL when starting a user session, and set PWD before 
  starting a user session.  This fixes problems when the user's $HOME
  directory is a symlink.  (Lo\357c Minier)

- Fix detection of Xserver so that it should work on Solaris, Debian and
  Ubuntu without needing to patch the code.  (Brian Cameron, Lo\357c Minier)

- Documentation and manpage improvements (Brian Cameron, Lo\357c Minier)

- Several build fixes (Saleem Abdulrasool, Ed Catmur, Jens Granseuer).

- Translation updates (David Lodge, Kjartan Maraas, Christophe Merlet)

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